Carl I. Hammer

People, Politics, and Society in Colonial Western Massachusetts

Old Hampshire County and Massachusetts Bay to the Revolution

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Produktbeschreibung

In this book, Carl I. Hammer uses social, cultural, and political analysis to explore a broad range of significant colonial issues that affected western Massachusetts from the late seventeenth century to the American Revolution.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Seitenzahl: 266
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Februar 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 587g
• ISBN-13: 9781793634320
• ISBN-10: 1793634327
• Artikelnr.: 60412351

Autorenporträt

Carl I. Hammer

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: "The Worshipful Peter Tilton" of Hadley: A Backwoods Puritan
Populist Politician and His Books
Chapter 2: "Being Old and Dayly Finding the Symptoms of Mortality": The
Troubled Last Years
of Hannah Beamon of Deerfield and the Law of 1726
Chapter 3: "He Would Have the Honour of It": William Huxley's Madness and
Slave
Manumission in Eighteenth-Century Suffield, Massachusetts
Chapter 4: "Her Natural Temper Disposes Her Much More to Dominion than
Subjection": Abigail Williams, Jonathan Edwards and the Indian Mission at
Stockbridge
Chapter 5: "To Promote Religion and Learning and Piety": The Failure of
Queens College, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, Revisited
Chapter 6: "To be More of a Willow and Less of an Oak": Charles Phelps,
Thomas Hutchinson and the Failure of Israel Williams
Chapter 7: "Laggard Revolutionists"?: The Coming of the Revolution to
Hampshire County
Conclusion: A "Surprisingly Modern" Hampshire County?